Lead Product Designer, Design Systems
Apply on HighLevelHighLevel is hiring a Lead Product Designer, Design Systems to shape the design system used across the product and developer community. The role expects 7+ years of product design experience and requires a portfolio that includes design system work. The position is 100% remote and is based in India with flexibility for candidates in the United States or the United Kingdom. The lead individual contributor will treat the design system as a product, partnering with design leadership, front-end engineers and product teams and embracing AI-assisted workflows.
✦ AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Lead strategy and execution for one or more areas of the design system based on product needs, usage data and technical constraints
- Define and evolve visual foundations including tokens, theming, color, typography, spacing, iconography and motion
- Design and refine components and patterns, covering anatomy, states, variants, responsive behavior, edge cases and failure states
- Create primitives, templates and starter kits that help teams build quickly with AI tools while staying on-system
- Encode visual, interaction, content and accessibility rules as documentation and machine-readable guidance for AI coding tools and agents
- Partner with front-end engineers on token architecture, component APIs and implementation fidelity so Figma, documentation and code stay in sync
- Shape contribution, versioning, deprecation and governance models to prevent fragmentation
- Guide product teams onto the system, study how it is used in shipped products and iterate based on findings
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of relevant product design experience, including building or leading a multi-team design system
- An exceptionally strong portfolio with at least one system-level case study that covers your role, architecture, governance and measurable impact
- Applications without a portfolio that includes design system work will not be considered
- Advanced visual and interaction design craft with strong care for hierarchy, layout, typography, grids, spacing, motion, usability, accessibility and product quality
- Expert command of Figma libraries, variables, modes, component properties and token pipelines, and experience architecting scalable systems across teams connected to AI tools
- Deep fluency in front-end development, including HTML, CSS and component frameworks such as React or Vue, with the ability to review implementations for fidelity
- Hands-on experience coding prototypes with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor to test primitives, templates and patterns before production
- Deep knowledge of WCAG and hands-on experience designing and testing accessible components
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